++ Deadline Extension ++
New submission deadline: March 28, 2014

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Call for Papers
EUC 2014
The 12th IEEE/IFIP International Conference
on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
Milan, Italy, August 26-28, 2014
http://euc14.necst.it
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EUC 2014 is organized as a part of the P2CWeek 2014 (Parallel and Pervasive
Computing Week) event (August 25-29, 2014) at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

++ Confirmed Keynote Speakers ++
- Nikil Dutt, University of California Irvine
- Fabrizio Petrini, IBM TJ Watson, USA
- Peter Hofstee, IBM Research Austin

++ Confirmed Special Issues associated with the conference ++
- “Software for embedded and ubiquitous computing” in ELSEVIER Journal
of Systems Architecture (JSA)
- “Innovative design methods for smart embedded systems” in ACM Transaction
on Embedded Computing (TECS)

++ Deadline Extension valid also for Special Session/Workshop Proposals ++
- Special session: see http://euc14.necst.it/call_for_special_session.html
- Workshop: see http://euc14.necst.it/call_for_workshop.html
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Embedded and ubiquitous computing is an exciting paradigm that promises to
provide computing and communication services to the end users all the time
and everywhere. Its systems are now invading in every aspect of our daily
life and promise to revolutionize our life much more profoundly than
elevators, electric motors or even personal computer evolution ever did.
The emergence of this technology is a natural outcome of research and
technological advances in a variety of areas including embedded systems,
pervasive computing and communications, wireless networks, mobile computing,
distributed computing and agent technologies.

Topics:
The EUC-14 conference will provide a forum for engineers and scientists in
academia, industry, and government to address all challenges including
technical, safety, social, and legal issues related to embedded and
ubiquitous computing and to present and discuss their ideas, results,
work-in-progress and experience on all aspects of embedded and ubiquitous
computing. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
1. Hardware architectures for embedded and ubiquitous computing
- Operating systems services for embedded systems.
- Efficient hardware implementation for ubiquitous algorithms/computing
- Architectures for low-power wireless communication
- Application-specific processors and systems for ubiquitous computing
- Prototyping and simulation of ubiquitous and embedded applications
- Hardware support for collaborative ubiquitous applications
2. Software for embedded and ubiquitous computing
- Programming paradigms, languages, aspects of modeling and
specification
- Software architectures and design methodologies, including compilers,
memory management, virtual machines, scheduling, operating systems,
middleware, and code generation
- Modeling, analysis, and optimization of non-functional and performance
aspects such as timing, memory usage, energy, QoS, and reliability
- Scheduling, execution time analysis, timing aspects, and real-time
support
3. Hardware/Software Co-design and Design Automation
- Simulation and validation of mixed Hardware/Software systems
- Model based design of heterogeneous systems
- Formal methods and verification
- Partitioning and Hardware/Software interaction
- Power- and Thermal-Aware Design
- Automation for Logic and System-level Synthesis
4. Self-adaptive and reconfigurable computing
- Reconfigurable Architectures
- Novel applications for Reconfigurable Computing
- Reconfiguration Management techniques
- Self-Adaptive and Self-Healing Systems
- Programming Models and Design Methodologies for Reconfigurable
Computing
5. Applications for Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
- Real-time and critical applications for embedded systems
- information systems and data management for embedded systems
- Multimedia and consumer electronics applications
- Transportation application: automotive, avionics, etc.
- Cloud Computing for mobile systems
- Intelligent sensors
6. Smart mobile systems and Social Media
- smart mobile systems
- mobile and social media applications
- wearable computing
- cyber physical systems
- big data analytics
7. Power-Aware Computing
- Near-Threshold Voltage (NTV) and Sub-Threshold Voltage (SUBVT)
circuits
- Power-aware embedded architectures (e.g. sensor network, multi-core
architectures)
- Power-aware system software and application design
- CAD tools and methodologies for low-power and thermal-aware designs
- Non conventional low-power computing paradigms (e.g. brain-inspired)
8. Security for Distributed Systems
- Operating systems security; Human-computer interaction security and
privacy
- Malicious software analysis and detection
- Detection, analysis, and prevention of distributed attacks
- Anti-fraud techniques; security of mobile devices
- Integrating security in Internet protocols: routing, naming, network
management
- Security for emerging technologies: sensor/wireless/mobile/personal
- Security for future home networks, internet of things, body-area
networks
- Security for large-scale systems and critical infrastructures
(electronic voting, smart grid)
- Security of Web-based applications and services
9. Fault Tolerance and Reliability / Dependability
- Fault-tolerant systems: Reconfigurable systems, application- and
domain-specific
systems, Systems-on-Chip, Networks-on-Chip, and memory subsystems
- Fault-tolerant runtime system management and variability or aging
aware monitoring
- Fault-tolerant, variability or aging aware design
- Modeling and characterization of defects, faults and degradation
mechanisms
- Test and diagnosis techniques
10. Distributed systems and smart sensing
- Wireless sensor networks
- Body area networks
- Distributed sensing and sensor fusion
- Distributed computing on embedded devices
- Pervasive and ubiquitous computing

Submission and Publication Information:
Papers should be written in English conforming to the IEEE Conference
Proceedings Format (8.5" x 11", Two-Column). Each paper is limited to 8
pages (or 10 pages with an overlength charge). Papers should be submitted
through the EasyChair system at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=euc14.
The accepted papers from this conference will be published by IEEE Computer
Society in IEEE proceedings. The program committee will select and award two
"Best Paper Awards" for this conference. Best papers are then invited to be
submitted as an extended version to the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and
Distributed Systems. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be
considered for possible publication in special issues of prestigious
international journals.
By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is
accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the
paper. For no-show authors, their papers will be removed from the digital
library after the conference and their affiliations will be notified.

Important Dates:
(1) Paper Submission Deadline: March 28, 2014
Workshop Proposal: March 28, 2014
Special Session Proposal: March 28, 2014
(2) Notification of Decision: May 9, 2014
(3) Camera-ready Papers Due: June 8, 2014

General Chair:
- Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Program Co-Chairs:
- Christian Pilato, Columbia University, USA
- Mario Porrmann, Bielefeld University, Germany

Workshop Co-Chairs:
- Dionisios N. Pnevmatikatos, FORTH-ICS & TU-Crete, Greece
- Diana Goehringer, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Publicity Co-Chairs:
- Eli Bozorgzadeh, University of California, USA
- Eduardo de la Torre, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Pao Ann-Hsiung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

Track Co-Chairs:
1. Hardware architectures for embedded and ubiquitous computing
- Daniel Chillet, Université de Rennes, France
- Jeronimo Castrillon, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
2. Software for embedded and ubiquitous computing
- Ann-Gordon Ross, University of Florida, USA
- Iuliana Bacivarov, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
3. Hardware/Software Co-design and Design Automation
- Seda Ogrenci Memik, Northwestern University, USA
- Sara Vinco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
4. Self-adaptive and reconfigurable computing
- Jari Nurmi, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
- Zain ul Abdin, Halmstad University, Sweden
5. Applications for Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
- Achim Rettberg, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
- Jalil Boukhobza, University of Western Britanny, France
6. Smart mobile systems and Social Media
- Alvin Chin, Nokia, China
- Simon Oberthür, University of Paderborn, Germany
7. Power-Aware Computing
- Gianluca Palermo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Thorsten Jungeblut, Bielefeld University, Germany
8. Security for Distributed Systems
- Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
- Federico Maggi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
9. Fault Tolerance and Reliability / Dependability
- Ioannis Sourdis, Chalmers, Sweden
- Chiara Sandionigi, CEA-LIST, France
10. Distributed systems and smart sensing
- Jose L. Ayala, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
- Ulf Witkowski, South Westphalia University, Germany